Where Islam spreads, freedom dies

The Interior Minister of North Rhine – Westphalia,
Ralf Jäger, has warned of a renewed strength of Salafism in this the most populous
federal estate. According to declarations he made on Monday during the
presentation of the report made by the Federal Office for the Protection of the
Constitution, their number increased to 1800 individuals in NRW. This would mean 300 more as compared to the previous
year. In 1012 the security authorities had counted some 1.000 violent Salafists
in North Rhine – Westphalia.

„Salafism is the fastest growing extremist tendency
in the whole federal territory”, Jäger warned after a report published in the Rheinischen Post. The Salafist scene made
use of the civil war in Syria in order to radicalize people and make them join
the fight in that country. This causes him a lot of concern. 120 Islamists departed
just from NRW to Syria to join the fight. As for the whole of Germany, the
number was of some 320.

According to security officials, it is mainly the
possible return of such Syrian soldiers to Germany what hides a danger for the
public security in the Federal Republic, for radicalized Muslims already have
experience with weapons and explosives.